She wanders outside the ambit of civilization : discourses of nomadism in twentieth-century women's writing.

• Main Author: Foo, Carissa Cai Li.
• Other Authors: Angela Anne Frattarola
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/38537
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper extends the sociologically-related term ‘nomadism’ to a literary analysis. It will figuratively map out nomadism along the twentieth-century, across notable women writers such as Muriel Spark, Jeanette Winterson and Djuna Barnes. Nomadism, conventionally tied to migration patterns of peop...